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Different Between Locked or Unlock iPhone ?, Confusion

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jackdon	Oct 6 2008, 11:31 PM Return to original view \| Post #1
Enthusiast Senior Member 719 posts Joined: Dec 2006	QUOTE(nokia2003 @ Oct 6 2008, 11:13 PM) chill la. be more polite and courteous. Hehe.... now I am also blur liau... Now let see if a noob like me can make some sense to myself, so correct me if I am wrong. This is what I understand so far. A lock 3G iphone is a phone that is sold by a certain telco in that particular country with a contract like 2 year at an attractive discounted price like US$199/. So in order that you stick to the contract they program the iPhone so that it can only use its own SIM card which is widely known as a LOCK phone. So currently there is NO SOFTWARE available to UNLOCK a LOCK 3G iPhone. The only to unlock is via a Turbo SIM or physical modification which I read from here is a big NO NO. .... so far am I on the right track Now about Jailbreak commonly know as JB. All iphone Lock and Unlock can only install approved apple iphone software from itune store so in a sense it is in a Jail. We need to JailBreak it in order for us to install 3rd party software via Cydia or Installer or SSH to the iphone. A LOCK iphone can be jailbreak but still LOCK to its own telco carrier An Unlock iPhone if not modified would still be in Jail. Am I making any sense... jackdon This post has been edited by jackdon: Oct 6 2008, 11:32 PM
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jackdon	Oct 7 2008, 09:42 PM Return to original view \| Post #2
Enthusiast Senior Member 719 posts Joined: Dec 2006	QUOTE(davidgary73 @ Oct 7 2008, 04:21 PM) » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « @ cool123, Some answers to your queries.. a) People always using wrong description about unlock or jailbreak ... Can someone explain more .. Answers: 1) Unlock - to enable the phone to use other that the intended telco. 2) Jailbreak - to open/hack the system so users can modify or access the filesystem. ____________________________________________________________________ b) Does it means that buying unlock or locked iphone does not mean much different ? Answers: Locked - Tied to the telco carrier Unlocked - Can use with any telco carrier Jailbreak - Can install FREE 3rd party application thru installer or cydia .. ____________________________________________________________________ c) So, even we buy a locked version of iphone, after we jailbreak using pwnage / quickpwn /winpwn /etc we still able to any telco carrier + install 3rd party application? Answers: No. You'll will not have phone functionality unless you use some hack sim hardwares but 3rd party sofwares will work. ____________________________________________________________________ d) Why we need to buy unlocked iphone ? ( since we can use jailbreak to the locked phone using any telco carrier ) Answers: 1) We don't need to unlock a 3G iPhone using softwares. Is permanently unlock. Unlike 2G iphone which we need to wait for Pwnagetool, Winpwn, Quickpwn to provide an unlock/JB solution when we need to update to the latest/current frimware that Apple releases. 2) Jailreak/Unlock will not unlock a LOCKED 3G iPhone. ____________________________________________________________________ e) Pwnage tools cannot unlock the 3G baseband yet - ( what does it means ? Cannot use other telco 3G ? ) Answers: 1) Baseband is a subsystem on the phone that handles phone line communication. Modifying this subsystem is how unlocks are achieved. 2) Pwangetool has no solution to unlock a 3G iphone via software as of yet. ____________________________________________________________________ f) Locked or unlock version , you still need to run the pwnage tools to jailbreak your iphone to intsall 3rd party application for FREE .. Users Choice. ____________________________________________________________________ Having given all these answers, i think you should be doing some homework yourself by looking for more infos if you're gonna get an 3G iPhone. Please be kind to find answers to your queries before asking or opening new threads because you're old enough to do so. Thank you for reading. Cheers Ahh... the master has spoken.... and all of a sudden everything looks so clear. jackdon
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